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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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